The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 46, October 30, 2005, Article 5

CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL WINNER ROSA PARKS DIES

The following is from an October 25, 2005 article on the
National Public Radio web site:

"Rosa Parks, the woman known as the "mother of the civil
rights movement," has died. Parks turned the course of
American history by refusing in 1955 to give up her seat
on a bus for a white man.

In 1999, when former President Bill Clinton presented Parks
with the Congressional Gold Medal, he said her short bus
ride went a long way for civil rights."

"Parks worked as a seamstress at a local department store,
and on her way home from work one day, she engaged in a
simple gesture of defiance that galvanized the civil rights
movement.

It was nearly 50 years ago, Dec. 1, 1955, when Parks
challenged the South's Jim Crow laws -- and Montgomery's
segregated bus seating policy -- by refusing to get up and
give her seat to a white passenger. "

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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